ISSUE No. 8: The Uninhibited Art of Fashion
This week we asked all the designers featured to send us mood boards, in order to convey how art and artistic elements play a…
Read MoreFebruary, 2015
BACO STYLE: Helen Nonini, A Milanese Muse
MILAN–Entrepreneur Helen Nonini possesses the audacious fashion sense of Jazz Age muses like singer Josephine Baker and flapper Zelda Fitzgerald. With a potent ethnic mix of Italian,…
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Eloi Derôme: Parisian Painter with Haute Couture
At a Parisian painter’s flat overlooking Place de la Bastille, BACO’s Paris correspondent Marianne Dorell explores the world of an artist who is inspiring fashion. PARIS–“You’ll find my studio…
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Valerj Pobega: Italian Avant-Garde, Made in LA
LOS ANGELES–With collections titled — “Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell, Arachnophobia and Black Flowers Blossom” — just to name a few, it is…
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RRUNA: The Artist’s Vision, Fashionable Allegory
By Sofia Celeste ROME–The fashion industry traces its roots to the mid-19th century, when artists designed the sketches that were shown to the dames and…
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NADIAMARI: Wearable Mosaics
ROME–Nestled at the end of a sun-kissed street on the Eternal City’s Gianiculum Hill, designer Nadia Mari’s studio is a cross between an artist’s workshop…
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De Rosis: Contamination of Art and Beauty
By Valentina Accardo ROME–Matisse, Miro’, Jean Arp e Malevich, inspired Ida De Rosis to create an high quality bags collection made through original design and…
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Altaroma Issue: A Triumph of Youth
With an 18-year-old chronicled as one of the most promising emerging designers at Altaroma this season, it is clear that Altaroma is a valid launching…
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Quattromani’s Pom-Pom Squad
ROME–Quattromani, a finalist of the ninth edition of Vogue Italia and Altaroma’s scouting project “Who Is On Next?” looked to 1970’s knitwear references in…
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Piccione Piccione
ROME–Since graduating from the European Institute of Design in 2008 Salvatore Piccione’s career and collections have set off on an incredible trajectory. His new collection…
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